tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post7218710494146088235..comments2024-02-28T08:54:21.924-08:00Comments on The Kundalini Consortium: The SelfJJ Semplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-70078218558274244892014-10-24T13:05:35.092-07:002014-10-24T13:05:35.092-07:00the most powerful yoga exercise ever...
http://ww...the most powerful yoga exercise ever...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.returnofkings.com/45778/the-most-powerful-yoga-exercise" rel="nofollow">http://www.returnofkings.com/45778/the-most-powerful-yoga-exercise</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-77633767710593184302014-10-23T14:52:29.797-07:002014-10-23T14:52:29.797-07:00The faculties, Paul Lyons, are those human ones op...The faculties, Paul Lyons, are those human ones opened to the entire range of epistemic value judgements possible to us. And, as naturally-evolved faculties, are therefore not value contingent upon claims based on 'Appeals To ( a bronze-age,caste-ridden) Religious Authority,' esp. when this kind of appeal hinges on ascribing non-locative and immaterial characteristics to whatever we can more rationally agree to, whenever determining some truth-status upon some entity that which either party may table for examination. Thanks for responding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-84704780159430151942014-10-22T09:02:02.481-07:002014-10-22T09:02:02.481-07:00I suppose it's a matter of what faculty one is...I suppose it's a matter of what faculty one is observing with. That's what Gopi Krishna is saying--there are other faculties besides the 'actual' ones. These other faculties can be opened by Kundalini awakening. There is a risk of one's being, or being called, a mere fantasist, but there are two answers to this charge: firstly, one can be passionate and honest enough not to lie to oneself; and secondly, kundalini is such a powerful and lucid force, so outside one's pre-kundalini mind-set, that it's unthinkable that it should be a mere invention or fantasy. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552149362839746643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-61885476330452395852014-10-22T08:51:02.023-07:002014-10-22T08:51:02.023-07:00Location is part of the process of manifestation, ...Location is part of the process of manifestation, just as smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing are. I think Gopi Krishna, with his profound Kundalini awakening, understood the power of consciousness. Mind isn't a pallid spectator chained to dynamic physicality. In truth, consciousness is more powerful than matter, which is difficult to take on board standing on the platform with the other commuters of a morning watching an express train hurtle past. The primacy and energy of consciousness is difficult to accept, but it's true. I think William Blake expresses it very vividly it in his prophetic books, where he writes about the heart forming in the void from a globe of blood, and optic nerves growing out of emptiness. These are just poetic images, but to Blake they were very real. He saw them with a sort of second sight. That's why he celebrates the 'Human Form Divine', from which the individual body condenses.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552149362839746643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-80756835590966102522014-10-22T08:38:12.922-07:002014-10-22T08:38:12.922-07:00This quote strikes a chord with me. Due to work an...This quote strikes a chord with me. Due to work and visa issues, I have fairly long (six month) periods of separation from my wife. I wrote a blog a while back about long-distance love, and how a sense of union can grow in isolation. I agree whole-heartedly that marriage is a sharing of the experience of loneliness. Perhaps union is a different thing from unloneliness.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552149362839746643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-57414564209938406032014-10-20T12:39:51.385-07:002014-10-20T12:39:51.385-07:00The body, since it lacks a material basis is not l...The body, since it lacks a material basis is not locative? No one observes this to be the actual case, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-44078882350847254582014-10-20T09:01:35.837-07:002014-10-20T09:01:35.837-07:00Another text that reverberates with your article. ...Another text that reverberates with your article. Gopi Krishna speaking in New York, 1978. https://www.facebook.com/notes/pandit-gopi-krishna/the-aim-to-create-one-more-channel-of-perception/1547664395450020:<br /><br />"Neither mind nor consciousness have a location. We say that a soul transmigrates, that soul leaves the body and goes somewhere else. But we are not correct because neither the soul, nor mind, nor the body are material in the sense in which we know it. They have no known location. Since they are expressed, they are not a product of the brain, but they are expressed through the brain just as electromagnetic waves are expressed through a television. We don't see the waves, we only see how they act in the television. Similarly, our consciousness, our awareness, our mind does not come from the brain, but it is here, all around us and in every cell, in every atom of our body. <br /><br />"The consciousness is present. This eternal life is present. We cannot see it because we have no senses to perceive it. The aim of Yoga and its spiritual disciplines is to produce, to create, one more channel so that now we are able now to look through it also."JJ Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5285871073069940636.post-3983304194452879842014-10-20T08:54:36.144-07:002014-10-20T08:54:36.144-07:00Because it dovetails nicely with your statement on...Because it dovetails nicely with your statement on loneliness, I copied this from The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-m-flanagan/the-9-most-overlooked-thr_b_5972534.html:<br /><br />"Marriage doesn't take away our loneliness. To be alive is to be lonely. It's the human condition. Marriage doesn't change the human condition. It can't make us completely unlonely. And when it doesn't, we blame our partner for doing something wrong, or we go searching for companionship elsewhere. Marriage is intended to be a place where two humans share the experience of loneliness and, in the sharing, create moments in which the loneliness dissipates. For a little while."JJ Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12739952761972950114noreply@blogger.com